2026 R. Brent Tully: Physics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Physics	91	2201	2093	1117	1043	320	23563

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World Ranking

Current World Ranking

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Physics

2201

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1043

320

23563

Overview

R. Brent Tully is affiliated with the University of Hawaii at Manoa in the United States. Their research primarily falls under the broad field of Physics and Astronomy, with a focus on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Computational Mechanics, and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including:

Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena
Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
Astronomy and Astrophysical Research
Cosmology and Gravitation Theories
Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies
Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by R. Brent Tully include:

"Distances to PHANGS galaxies: New tip of the red giant branch measurements and adopted distances," 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
"The HESTIA project: simulations of the Local Group," 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
"Cosmicflows-4," 2023, The Astrophysical Journal
"Comparing Tip of the Red Giant Branch Distance Scales: An Independent Reduction of the Carnegie-Chicago Hubble Program and the Value of the Hubble Constant," 2022, The Astrophysical Journal
"Analysing the large-scale bulk flow using cosmicflows4: increasing tension with the standard cosmological model," 2023, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

R. Brent Tully has frequently published in venues such as:

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
The Astrophysical Journal
arXiv (Cornell University)
The Astronomical Journal
Astronomy and Astrophysics

The scientist has collaborated often with several co-authors who have contributed to multiple publications together. These include Gagandeep S. Anand, Ehsan Kourkchi, Л. Н. Макарова, John P. Blakeslee, and Joseph B. Jensen.

Best Publications

Cosmicflows-3

R. Brent Tully;Helene M. Courtois;Jenny G. Sorce

595
Citations
The Extragalactic Distance Database

R. Brent Tully;Luca Rizzi;Edward J. Shaya;Hélène M. Courtois;Hélène M. Courtois

591
Citations
COSMICFLOWS-2: THE DATA

R. Brent Tully;Hélène M. Courtois;Hélène M. Courtois;Andrew E. Dolphin;J. Richard Fisher

509
Citations
Global Extinction in Spiral Galaxies

R. Brent Tully;Michael J. Pierce;Jia-Sheng Huang;Will Saunders

477
Citations
Our Peculiar Motion Away from the Local Void

R. Brent Tully;Edward J. Shaya;Igor D. Karachentsev;Hélène M. Courtois

465
Citations
THE NEXT GENERATION VIRGO CLUSTER SURVEY (NGVS). I. INTRODUCTION TO THE SURVEY

Laura Ferrarese;Patrick Côté;Jean-Charles Cuillandre;S. D. J. Gwyn

449
Citations
Nearby groups of galaxies. II - an all-sky survey within 3000 kilometers per second

R. Brent Tully

442
Citations
Distances to Galaxies from the Correlation between Luminosities and Line Widths. III. Cluster Template and Global Measurement of H 0

R. Brent Tully;Michael J. Pierce

404
Citations
Tip of the Red Giant Branch Distances. II. Zero-Point Calibration

Luca Rizzi;R. Brent Tully;Dmitry Makarov;Dmitry Makarov;Dmitry Makarov;Lidia Makarova;Lidia Makarova;Lidia Makarova

404
Citations
The Laniakea supercluster of galaxies

R. Brent Tully;Hélène Courtois;Yehuda Hoffman;Daniel Pomarède

388
Citations
Distances to Galaxies from the Correlation Between Luminosities and Linewidths. III. Cluster Template and Global Measurements of H0

R. Brent Tully;M.J. Pierce

372
Citations
The Extragalactic Distance Database: Color-Magnitude Diagrams

Bradley A Jacobs;L Rizzi;R B Tully;E J Shaya

346
Citations
The Ursa Major Cluster of Galaxies. I. Cluster Definition and Photometric Data

R. Brent Tully;Marc A.W. Verheijen;Michael J. Pierce;Jia-Sheng Huang

295
Citations
The Ursa Major Cluster of Galaxies.I.Cluster Definition and Photometric Data

RB Tully;Marc Verheijen;MJ Pierce;RJ Wainscoat

290
Citations
The faint end of the galaxy luminosity function

Neil Trentham;R. Brent Tully

281
Citations
The Hubble flow around the CenA / M83 galaxy complex

Igor D Karachentsev;R Brent Tully;A Dolphin;M Sharina

279
Citations
Luminosity-line width relations and the extragalactic distance scale. I - Absolute calibration

Michael J. Pierce;R. B. Tully

273
Citations
Associations of Dwarf Galaxies

R B Tully;L Rizzi;A E Dolphin;I D Karachentsev

271
Citations
Distances to the Virgo and Ursa Major clusters and a determination of H0

Michael J. Pierce;R. Brent Tully

254
Citations
THE NUCLEAR SUPERBUBBLE OF NGC 3079

S. Veilleux;G. Cecil;J. Bland-Hawthorn;R. B. Tully

245
Citations